The Orchard of Missing Hours

A scientist is dead. His living double remembers the murder-from both sides.Private investigator Tex Calder has lost forty-three minutes. The clues lead to Helix, a research complex where an engineered orchard is growing into a neighboring world.Rooms overlap. Familiar faces belong to different lives. Even memory has become unreliable.With forensic specialist Mira Vale, Bix, and an elderly maintenance robot, Tex must follow the physical evidence through a place where the floor can change beneath his feet. But the orchard is spreading beyond the laboratory, and someone has a reason to keep the worlds connected-whatever the cost.His strangest clue is the old white-flowered plant on his office windowsill.The Orchard of Missing Hours blends impossible crime, dangerous science, and dry humor in a complete future-noir mystery.Tex Calder, Book Six.